ContributorNetwork – Yahoo! News asked its readers and contributors to share their memories of the space shuttle program as it nears its end in July. Below is a story from a contributor.
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from thethe greek island of Ikaria island at Pezi.That area is known as “the planet of the goats”because of the rough terrain and strange looking rocks.
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2011 June 20 
In the final move of its kind, NASA’s space shuttle Atlantiswas photographed earlier this month slowly advancing towardLaunchPad 39A, where it is currently scheduled for a July launch to theInternational Space Station.The mission, designatedSTS-135,is the 135th and last mission for aNASA space shuttleAtlantis and its four-person crew will be carrying, among other things,the Multi-Purpose Logistics ModuleRaffaello to bring key components and supplies to the ISS.Pictured above, the largeShuttle Crawler Transporter rolls the powerful orbiter along the five-kilometer long road at less than two kilometers per hour. Over 15,000 spectators, some visible on the right, were on hand for thehistoric roll out.
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AP – NASA’s next roving spacecraft to the surface of Mars has arrived in Florida after a cross-country flight to undergo final testing.
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ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | What is a space shuttle? Is it a collection of parts? Is it a machine? No, it is a unique community of people from all over the world that came together to pioneer a new capability. They worked to build and operate the system that we know as the space shuttle. The program brought together most of the world in a cooperative effort for science and exploration that grew into the International Space Station. The shuttle team was not only from the United States, but Europe and Japan, and it later included even the Russians. Shuttle program hardware was built all over the world, and was the training program for the International Space Station. What other program, even considering the major conflicts we have had, has brought together such a diverse group of countries?
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SPACE.com – NASA’s next Mars rover to explore the Red Planet landed in Florida yesterday (June 22) after a cross-country flight, marking a key milestone on the road to its planned launch this fall.
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ContributorNetwork – Yahoo! News asked its readers and contributors to share their memories of the space shuttle program as it nears its end in July. Below is a story from a contributor.
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Europe’s unmanned ATV space freighter plunged on command into Earth’s atmosphere today to end its mission as a spectacular shooting star over the southern Pacific Ocean. Contact with the spacecraft was lost at 20:41:39 GMT (22:41:39 CEST) at an altitude of 80 km.
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AP – The few specks of dust stuck to a small swatch weren’t much to look at, but federal prosecutors said Thursday that those flecks, which were set to be auctioned off in St. Louis, came from the moon via Apollo 11 and have been sent back to NASA where they belong.
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ContributorNetwork – Yahoo! News asked its readers and contributors to share their memories of the space shuttle program as it nears its end in July. Below is a story from a contributor.
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